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TWENTIETH CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA THIRD SPECIAL SESSION, 2017 C.B.

NO.

20-121 A BILL FOR AN ACT To amend Sections 9 and 12 of Public Law No.

20-42, as amended by Public Law No.

20-54, to sub-divide the Section 9 line item titled Conservation Society in Each State, and to name the Governor of Chuuk State as the allottee for the Chuuk State share of this line item, and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA: 1 Section 1.
Section 9 of Public Law No.

20-42, as previously 2 amended by Public Law No.

20-54, is hereby further amended, to 3 read as follows: “Section 9.

Capital and Human Resources Development.

The sum of $36,270,106, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, for the following capital improvements, development programs, and projects and human resources development.
Of the total amount of funds appropriated herein, $1,246,022 shall be deemed to come from funds available under the Amended Compact from the Supplemental Education Grant and $5,252,250 shall be deemed to come from funds available under the Amended Compact from Compact Sector Grants.

The sum appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: (1) College of Micronesia – FSM.

(a) College of Micronesia–FSM ..... $ 3,800,000 CBL 20-132 C.B.

NO.
NO.

20-121 (b) FSM Fisheries and Maritime Institute (FMI) ................ $ 833,915 (c) College of Micronesia-FSM SEG Funding ...................... 689,948 (d) COM-FSM Build.
Infrastructure Project ...................... 4,252,250 (2) Department of Finance and Administration (a) FSM Warehouse Lease and Maintenance .................. 100,000 (b) PCD Awareness and Training ..... 15,000 (3) Department of Resources and Development (a) FSM Association of Chamber of Commerce/ Support to COC ....... 67,000 (b) State Trade Fairs Enhancing Value Addition ................ -0- (c) R&D SNLC ....................... 60,000 (d) FSM Tourism Development Framework ...................... 100,000 (e) Food Security Production ....... 300,000 (f) Assistance to States for Tourism Investment Plan Implementation -0- (g) Fortieth Session of the Governing Council of International Fund for Agriculture Dev.
(IFAD) ....... 8,827 2 of C.B.

NO.
NO.

20-121 (h) National Coastal Fisheries Monitoring Team: Ongoing Monitoring Program, Assess Impacts of CEAFM Program and Climate Change ............... $ 16,325 (i) Chamber of Commerce: Chuuk State -0- (j) Chamber of Commerce: Kosrae State ......................... -0- (k) Chamber of Commerce: Pohnpei State ......................... (l) Chamber of Commerce: Yap State .
(m) Strengthening Organizational -0- -0- Planning, Management & Accountability Capacity of National/State Private Sector Organizations in the FSM ...... 42,319 (n) National Trade & Investment Portal ........................ 51,250 (o) R&D Conference ................. 80,000 (p) Implementation of Nagoya Protocol ...................... -0- (q) Development of a Comprehensive Intellectual Property Rights Regime ........................ -0- (r) Computing Facility Upgrade ..... 38,270 3 of 11 C.B.

NO.
20-121 (s) 2018-2019 HIES ................ $ 261,347 (t) 2020 CPH ....................... 18,331 (u) Enhancing Private Sector Competitiveness: Production of High Quality Import Substitutes and Value Added ............... 50,000 (v) Enhancing Private Sector Competitiveness: Supporting Business and Products/Services Upgrading ..................... -0- (w) Enhancing Private Sector Competitiveness: Marketing and Promoting FSM Products Overseas and Integration into Regional/ Global Supply Chains .......... 22,000 (4) Department of Transportation, Communications and Infrastructure (a) Operation and Dry-Docking of Caroline Voyager and Navigator ........... 1,500,000 (b) Capital Improvement Projects ... -0- (c) Outer Island Airports .......... 2,500,000 (d) FSM National Government Computer Network ............... 100,000 (e) FSM Capital Complex (2 Story Office Building) .............. -0- 4 of 11 C.B.
NO.

20-121 (f) New Warehouse Building ........ $ -0- (g) Rehabilitation for all National Government Buildings .......... 150,000 (h) New Backup Generator ........... 80,000 (i) Outstanding Inaugural Stage .... (j) Y12 Aircraft Operation Project .
-0- -0- (k) Funding for Road, Seaport and Airport Improvement ........... -0- (5) Department of Justice (a) Satellite Phone and Usage Billings -0- (b) Anti-Human Trafficking Enforcement, Campaign, and Investigation ................. 125,000 (c) Conduct Mediation in PII Case .. 53,000 (d) Victim Shelter and Services .... 100,000 (6) Office of Environment & Emergency Management (a) Fostering Sustainable Solid Waste Management .............. -0- (b) Hosting of Global Environment Facil.
Constituency Meetings .. 40,000 (c) Fourth Disaster Risk Management Environment Conference ........ 20,000 (d) Fifteen Thousand Gallon Water Cathcm.

....................... 4,250 (e) Implement the FSM National 5 of 11 C.B.

NO.
20-121 Disaster Response Plan ....... $ 30,000 (f) Backup Generator ............... 40,000 (7) President’s Office (a) FSM Trust Fund .................. 5,000,000 (b) Implementation of ODA Policy ... (c) Compact Review Committee ....... -0- -0- (8) National Election Commission Office (a) Voter ID Card and New Voter Registration Project .......... 50,000 (9) Department of Health and Social Affairs (a) Health Services Special Pathologist ...................... 58,000 (b) Food/Water Lab .................. 78,000 (c) Medical Team .................... 195,000 (d) Health Sector Arrears Project .. (e) Food Safety Office: Chuuk ...... -0- -0- (f) Doctors: Foundation Project .... 127,500 (g) MOE-BHWP Med ................... (h) Empower Youth .................. (i) National Surveillance .......... (j) Drug Testing ................... (k) National NGO ................... -0- -0- -0- -0- -0- (l) Women’s Conference ............. 90,000 (10) Department of Education (a) NDOE Year 3 Project (SEG) ....... 556,074 6 of 11 C.B.
NO.

20-121 (b) School Accreditation ........... $ 100,000 (c) Teacher Certification Project ... 168,000 (d) Development Quality.
............ 82,500 (11) Insurance Board (a) Improve and Strengthen the Country’s Insurance Statutory and Regulatory Framework ......... -0- (b) In-House Consultation/ On Site Examination and Investigation of Affairs of Captive Insurance ..... -0- (12) Department of Foreign Affairs (a) Acting Capacity Role ............ 36,000 (b) FSM Embassy in Suva, Fiji Residence ........................ 200,000 (13) NORMA (a) Hosting of PNA Leadership Summit.
-0- (b) Capital & Human Resources Development Programs in Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) ............... 55,000 (c) Commemoration of World Tuna Day 2018 ......................... 15,000 (14) National Postal Services (a) Postal Management and Financial Services ......................... 210,000 7 of 11 C.B.

NO.
20-121 (15) Office of the Public Defender (a) Case Management and Reporting System .......................... $ -0- (b) Know Your Rights Awareness Program .......................... -0- (16) Other Capital and Human Resources Development (a) Conservation Society in Each State, of which $50,000 shall be for the Conservation Society in Chuuk ........................ 200,000 (b) Payments for Yap-Chuuk Telecommunications Cable Project, of which $1,000,000 shall be used for civil works ... 12,000,000 (c) State Priority Infrastructure Projects: Kosrae: ................ -0- (d) State Priority Infrastructure Projects: Pohnpei ................ -0- (e) State Priority Infrastructure Projects: Chuuk .................. -0- (f) State Priority Infrastructure Projects: Yap, to be apportioned as follows: ..................... 1,500,000 (1) Airport terminal improvement 380,000 (2) Improvement of Yap 8 of 11 C.B.
NO.

20-121 1 2 3 4 Commercial Dock .......... $ 400,000 (3) Other Priority Infrastructure Projects ................. 720,000” Section 2.

Section 12 of Public Law No.

20-42 is hereby 5 amended to read as follows: “Section 12.

Allotment and Management of Funds and Lapse Dates.

(1) General provisions.


(a) All funds appropriated by this act shall be allotted, managed, administered and accounted for in accordance with applicable law, including, but not limited to, the Financial Management Act of 1979.

(b) The allottees shall be responsible for ensuring that these funds, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are used solely for the purposes specified in this act, and that no obligations are incurred in excess of the sums appropriated.

(2) Allottees.
(2) Allottees.

The allottees of the funds appropriated by this act are as follows: (a) Section 2 - the allottee of these funds shall be the President of the Federated States of Micronesia; (b) Section 3 - the allottee of these funds shall be the Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia; (c) Section 4 – the allottee of these funds shall be 9 of 11 C.B.

NO.
20-121 the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia; (d) Section 5 – the allottee of these funds shall be the Public Auditor of the Federated States of Micronesia; (e) Sections 6 through 9 - the allottee of these funds shall be the President of the Federated States of Micronesia; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that for the following subsections of sections 8 through 9 of this act: (i) Section 8(1)(g) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Chair of the Joint Committee on Compact Review and Planning; (ii) Section 8(9) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia; (iii) Section 8(12)(a) – the allottee of these funds shall be the President of the College of Micronesia-FSM; (iv) Section 8(12)(e) through (h) - the allottee of these funds shall be the Chief Justice of the respective State Supreme Court; (v) Section 9(1) – the allottee of these funds shall be the President of the College of Micronesia- FSM[.
]; (vi) Section 9(16)(a) – the allottee of these 10 of 11 C.B.

NO.

20-121 funds shall be the President of the Federated States of Micronesia; EXCEPT THAT, for the share of funds from this line item for the Conservation Society in Chuuk, the allottee shall be the Governor of the State of Chuuk; [(vi)](vii) Section 9(16)(f) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the State of Yap.

(3) Lapse date.
(3) Lapse date.

The authority of the allottees to obligate funds appropriated by this act shall lapse as of September 30, 2018; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the funds appropriated under section 9 of this act shall not lapse.” Section 3.

This act shall become law upon approval by the 14 President of the Federated States of Micronesia or upon its 15 becoming law without such approval.

16 17 Date: 12/9/17 Introduced by: /s/ Victor V. Gouland Victor V. Gouland of 11